London, 14 December 2016, 5:30 pm
Admission free; please register for this event on our Eventbrite page here.
London, 14 December 2016, 5:30 pm
Admission free; please register for this event on our Eventbrite page here.
“Thinking in Pictures: What Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky have in common with Aby Warburg” in „Kandinsky, Marc & Der Blaue Reiter”, Fondation Beyeler Basel/Riehen 2016, Hajte Dantz Verlag, Berlin 2016, S. 18-23.
Andreas Beyer
Speaker of the Bilderfahrzeuge Project
In this essay, Bilderfahrzeuge Speaker Professor Andreas Beyer traces the origins of an integral element of contemporary art theory – the possibility of an intellectual and theoretical discourse based entirely on images – ‘art speaking for itself’.
Dr Mechthild Fend
London, 16 November 2016, 5:30 pm
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London, 5 October 2016, 5:30 pm
Admission free; please register for this event on our Eventbrite page here.
Blog Post – Anna McSweeney July 2016
Among the members of the Bilderfahrzeuge group, we have been thinking recently about ‘immutable mobiles’ and the object-oriented theories of Bruno Latour in relation to our work on image vehicles, the movement of images. In his essay ‘Visualisation and Cognition’, Latour casts inscriptions as the explanatory principle of modern scientific culture. He uses the term ‘immutable mobiles’ to describe objects which are characterized by the properties of mobility, immutability, presentability, readibility and combinability with each other. He claims that the history of these objects is the history of scholarship in visualisation and cognition.
It seemed to me that paper moulds are a good example of an immutable mobile. Using layers of wet paper to make a negative impression of a building or object, from which a positive could be cast in plaster, paper moulds were used by archaeologists and antiquarians in the mid-nineteenth century to copy the façades of monuments that were far away, at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Palenque in Mexico or the Alhambra in Spain, for example. Described as ‘facsimiles’ by the inventor of the technique, Lottin de Laval (1810-1903), paper moulds allowed explorers to transport a version of a building or sculpture with all its details back to the museum in the age before both digital reproduction and cheap and reliable photography.
13 June – 15 June 2016
Venue: UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Conference celebrating the life, work and impact of Aby Warburg including a screening of Aby Warburg: Metamorphosis and Memory (60 minutes. 2016), a film by Judith Wechsler.
On 13-15 June 2016, the Warburg Institute celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aby Warburg. At the centre of this commemoration is a conference dedicated to his work and heritage. It will reclaim the centrality of Warburg’s thought and vision not only for the London Institute but for the world of international scholarship. A large group of distinguished scholars will discuss the implications of his thought for the history of art, images and cultures. The aim will be not only to illuminate the past, but to reveal the potential of his writings for the debate about contemporary cultural differences as well.
NB: Registration for Sessions 4 & 5 (15th June) has closed, but places are still available for Sessions 1-3 (13th and 14th June). For any queries please email warburg@sas.ac.uk.
All sessions are available to view online via live streaming during the conference. Please click on the appropriate link to be redirected to the live stream:
For the live stream available from Germany (all sessions), please click on the following link:
Live stream from Germany
For more information and the programme of the conference, please visit the Warburg Institute website.
This conference is generously supported by the following organisations:
To coincide with the exhibition Botticelli Reimagined, this two-day international conference will explore our perception of Botticelli”s artistic practice, legacy and fame, as well as its impact and reception from fifteenth century to the present. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in collaboration with the Warburg Institute and the Bilderfahrzeuge, this event will bring together international scholars to consider how the art of the past remains a principal source for contemporary practice.
This conference is generously supported by the Kress Foundation and the Italian Embassy.
London, 13 & 14 May 2015, 10.30 – 17.00
Botticelli Conference Programme (as pdf)
NB: This conference is taking place at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Professor Whitney Davis
London, 11 May 2016, 5:30 pm
Admission free; pre-registration not required